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Cards in this set: Term "Fly Robin Fly", The Silver Connection Definition recorded in 1975 considered the first disco song with the 4/4 beat becomes the model for disco Term Stonewall Rebellion Definition 1969 New York Stonewall Inn Club allowed gay dancing - was raided - instead of capitulating the clubbers fought back and resisted arrest - gave the gay community a visibility it did not have before Term Studio 54 Definition Elitist New York club that played disco to be admitted had to be urban, able to dance, have money and be unusual in some way Term Chic Definition The wildly popular disco band that was once denied entrance from Studio 54 Recorded "Le Freak" in 1978 in response to their rejection from Studio 54 Term "Disco Sucks" record destruction Definition Took place at Comiske field - a response to the elitism that disco had become Term 1520 Sedgewicke Ave, NY Definition Considered the birthplace of Hip Hop However, the birth of Hip Hop was a process that merely started here Term Kool Herc Definition Lived at 1520 Sedgewicke. Aug 11, 1973 threw a party using a turntable Real name - Clive Cambell From Jamaica Term TAKI 183 Definition Winner of the NYC Loner Graffiti Competition Term Reginald Fessender Definition In 1906 became the first to transmit radio waves between the US and Scotland Term Robert Moses Definition Urban planner who put freeways through the Bronx that led to urban decay and sped up white flight Term "The Message" Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five (1982) Definition -considered the the beginning of commercialization of hip hop -About the dawn of the Reagan era -Set to a slower beat to emphasize the words over the beat -About the bottom really falling out on social programs and the pockets of America completely forgotten -"It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under" -Blues Impulse Term Kurtis Blow Definition First hip hop artist artist to sign record label in 1980 - signed with Uncle Louie Music Group Hit Song - "The Breaks" Term Four Elements of Hip Hop Definition 1. Graffiti 2. B-Boying (break dancing) 3. MCing 4. DJing Term Rakim Definition MC who introduced the idea of voice modulating voice through microphone and thus broaden the range of lyrics and the emphasis placed on them Term "Walk this Way" Run DMC (1986) Definition -Use metal sound to reach out to a broader audience -About breaking down walls and barriers and legitimizing hip hop as an important and popular genre -Lower class whites and urban blacks can agree on feeling increasingly marginalized in Reagan America because he was defining what it meant to be a patriotic, good American in a very limited way Term Chuck D. Definition Defined Hip Hop as The CNN of black people Member of Public Enemy Term "Fight the Power" Public Enemy Definition -Defiant song - trying to remind the rest of America that black, urban America was still there -Reflecting and repeating the same culture they were trying to overturn (that is the might makes right cowboy mentality) -The song itself is militant - Defends the Nation of Islam as a group that provided the services the government did not Term The Southern Strategy Definition -30 year Republican campaign to lure in Southern voters on race issues Term Reagan Rules Definition 1. "us" vs. "them" 2. image trumps reality 3. violence rules 4. money, money, money Term New Jack Swing Definition -R&B infused with hip hop -Teddy Riley coins term -Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis usher in this sound as producers using Janet Jackson as their vehicle Term The Trouble with Friendship Definition - Book by Benjamin DeMott -Argues there is a fantasy world of racial harmony being created -oversimplifies the causes of racism and allows us to ignore the harsh socioeconomic realities faced by many blacks in this countr Term Thriller Album Definition 1983 Michael Jackson Album - embodies friendship and racial harmony ideology -internationally best selling album Term "Black or White", Michael Jackson (1991) Definition -Trying to navigate his ideal world of racial harmony with a less idyllic underlying reality Term "Like a Prayer", Madonna (1984) Definition -Framing a lot of narrative with the narrative creating ironic distance -See in it what you want to see -Slippery narratives -video shows black man accused of rape, finds out he's innocent so should be let go -plays on the growing religious fervor of the 1980's -Friendship narrative in a fantasized version "Like a Prayer to Me". Term "Sign 'o' the Times", Prince Definition -Prince wasn't even in the video -The ultimate withdraw - Prince wants the song to be about the music and the message, not about celebrity -Thinking about drugs and violence Term Fortress LA Definition -a containment of the unsavory to perpetuate the LA myth Term Frank Gary Definition Architect of LA prison like structures Term Compton Definition -part of LA just quartered off by police -no structure, order - had essentially been abandoned -gang culture arises -ultimately the dam bursts Term Spoonie G Definition First gangsta rapper Came out of Phillie Term Ice Berg Slim Definition The real gangsta who wrote fantasy poetry in jail and inspired ICE-T 's persona Term "Straight Outta Compton" NWA (1988) Definition -Violent, Vulgar lyrics -Straight Blues - about coping, not about overcoming -In some ways, gangsta rap like "Compton" reinforce the black man stereotype -Debate about whether its a reflection of reality or a glamorization of gang violence Term "Welcome to the Jungle", Guns "N" Roses" Definition -Indicative of the metal sound also coming out of LA -About the seedy underside of LA -About exposing this world to everyone else -Also similar in sonic progression -Articulates the rage bubbling under "morning in America" Term Rodney King (LA riots) 1992 Definition -Rodney King - black man beaten by police -Marked the end of containment culture in LA -4,000 injured, 50 killed, billions in property damage, 12,000 arrested -The social realism in gangsta rap has a moral force it didn't have before for the rest of America viewing this for the first time Term "It Was a Good Day" Ice Cube (1992) Definition -Incorporates the Gospel Impulse - that is the possibility of finding the good and peace -Chilled out, feel good side of rap -Yet, at end of video its back to reality Term The Breaks Definition Drops vocals, other instruments to just leave the beat Term Dub Plates Definition B-side of records without the lyrics Term "Me, Myself and I" De la Sol (1989) Definition Less strong voicing, critique of mainstream and alternative cultures -about challenging the mainstream hip hop -not going to follow the trend -not as racially polarizing -articulates the rap - different use of the mic -independent, gentler sensibility, resisting stereotypes Term C.R.E.A.M Definition Cash Rules Everything Around Me Term "Trapped" Tupac (1991) Definition -Ghetto/poverty and Prison cycle, violence cycle, gangsta with political message mixed in -Captures the essence of where Tupac was early in his career -Takes gangsta context and tries to inflict some social/political awareness -Adds multiple layers of sophistication -" nah, they can't keep the black man down" Term Beef Definition Film detailing West Coast vs. East Coast feud Term Death Row vs. Bad Boy Records Definition At the center of the East/West feud Death - west Bad Boy - east Term Jackson 5 Definition First Boy Band Term Maurice Star Definition Took Jackson 5 model and created New Edition and NKOTB Term "End of the Road" Boys II Men (1992) Definition Broke Elvis' record for most weeks at number 1 with 13 Term Lou Pearlman Definition Douchebag creator of BSB and N'SYNC Term Johnny Wright Definition Former NKOTB manager who became BSB manager Term Triggaman Definition The Beat pattern that you need to make bounce music with Term Second Line Dance Definition influenced by Mardi Gras type celebration -parade type of dance Term Miami Bass Definition low bass - gets into the cars a little more RICK ROSS = rapper who uses to a large degree Term Tom Morello Definition guitarist for Rage Against the Machine - takes aesthetic of hip hop (distortion and sampling) and patterns the way he plays his guitar after it